US-born Asian-American Women More Likely To Think About, Attempt Suicide, Study Finds


	US-born Asian-American Women More Likely To Think About, Attempt Suicide, Study Finds

zizzy

8-27-2009 4:31 PM

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Related: Attempted suicide in South Asian Women http://apt.rcpsych.org/cgi/reprint/8/6/418.pdf

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/dec4c6df-5b72-4102-a973-3187cb664b90/FF4A018B-67ED-404B-9D98-592D48B680EF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.racialicious.com/2009/08/27/disgrasian-of-the-weak-asian-american-women-most-likely-to-attempt-suicide/" href="http://www.racialicious.com/2009/08/27/disgrasian-of-the-weak-asian-american-women-most-likely-to-attempt-suicide/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.racialicious.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.racialicious.com/2009/08/27/disgrasian-of-the-weak-asian-american-women-most-likely-to-attempt-suicide/"><P><A href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_wocG2evroyQ/So8bhA7z_uI/AAAAAAAAJuU/LZpOQ2a2y54/s1600-h/angry-asian-girl.jpg"><IMG border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5372543134476795618" src="http://1.1.1.1/bmi/1.bp.blogspot.com/_wocG2evroyQ/So8bhA7z_uI/AAAAAAAAJuU/LZpOQ2a2y54/s400/angry-asian-girl.jpg" /></A>Asians love being the best. But here’s one superlative we don’t love–Asian-American women are <A href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090817190650.htm">most likely to think about and attempt suicide</A>, more than all other Americans, according to a new University of Washington study.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.racialicious.com/2009/08/27/disgrasian-of-the-weak-asian-american-women-most-likely-to-attempt-suicide/"><P>“<SPAN>It is unclear why Asian-Americans who were born in the United States have higher rates of thinking about and attempting suicide,</SPAN>” <A href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090817190650.htm">said Aileen Duldulao</A>, lead researcher of the study.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.racialicious.com/2009/08/27/disgrasian-of-the-weak-asian-american-women-most-likely-to-attempt-suicide/">if you’re an Asian-American woman who has struggled with depression her whole life like I have, it’s not unclear to you, is it? 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